Center for Victims of Torture

The Center for Victims of Torture "is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization founded in 1985. With headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and offices in St. Paul, Minnesota and Washington, D.C., CVT also operates healing centers in Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo."

Staff
Accessed August 2008:


 * Douglas A. Johnson - Executive Director
 * Ruth Barrett Rendler - Deputy Director

Funders (2007)
Accessed August 2008:

Guardian – $100,000+
 * Bush Foundation
 * Alfred and Ingrid Lenz Harrison
 * HKH Foundation
 * Holthues Trust
 * Government of The Netherlands, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
 * United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
 * United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture
 * U.S. Agency for International Development
 * U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - Office of Refugee Resettlement
 * U.S. Department of State - Bureau for Population, Refugees and Migration

Activist – $25,000–99,999
 * Anonymous (2)
 * David Andreas and Deb Andreas
 * Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation
 * Morton K. and Jane Blaustein Foundation
 * Herb Block Foundation
 * Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation
 * Otto Bremer Foundation
 * Briggs and Morgan
 * Connect US Fund of Tides Foundation
 * Nathan Cummings Foundation
 * DLA Piper
 * Engdahl Family Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation
 * Barbara L. Forster and Lawrence H. Hendrickson
 * Frey Foundation
 * John and Chara Haas Huss Foundation
 * Albert J. and Diane E. Kaneb Fund at the Boston Family Foundation
 * McKnight Foundation
 * Medica Foundation
 * Medtronic Foundation
 * National Endowment for Democracy
 * Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation
 * State of Minnesota, Office of Justice Programs
 * Tides Foundation
 * University of Minnesota
 * Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation
 * Working Assets

Other interesting lesser funders of their work included the United States Institute of Peace.

Board
Accessed March 2011:


 * Chair: Patti Andreini Arnold, Chief Operating Officer, University of Minnesota Physicians.
 * Vice Chair: Babette Apland - Senior Vice President, Health & Care Management, HealthPartners.
 * Treasurer: Connie Magnuson - Co-owner, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Caribou Technologies, Inc.
 * Past Chair: John Cairns - Charter School and Tax Exempt Organizations Attorney, John Cairns Law, P.A.
 * C. Scott Cooper - Director of Engagement and Communication, The Bush Foundation.
 * Julie W. Elder - Vice President and Group Counsel, Technology and Enterprise Procurement, Ameriprise Financial, Inc.
 * Nancy Feldman - President and Chief Executive Officer, UCare Minnesota.
 * Roger Hale - Retired Chairman of Tennant Company.
 * Sheila Kiscaden - Consultant. Former Minnesota State Senator.
 * Venetia Kudrle - Consultant. Former President, Mercy and Unity Hospitals
 * Ellie Lucas - Chief Campaign Officer, Hunger Free MN
 * Steven H. Miles - Professor Center for Bioethics, Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School. Author of Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror
 * Charlie Rounds - Former President, RSVP Vacations
 * Pamela Pappas Stanoch - President/Owner, Athena Group International

Directors (2008)
Accessed August 2008:

Officers
 * Chair: Venetia Kudrle - Consultant. Former President, Mercy and Unity Hospitals
 * Vice Chair: John Cairns - Charter School and Tax Exempt Organizations Attorney, John Cairns Law, P.A.
 * Treasurer and Chair, Finance Committee: Gerald J. Knutson - Chief Financial Officer, Ovations Business Segment, United Health Group
 * Past Chair and Development Committee Chair: Ellie Lucas - Vice President, Strategic Marketing, Bewiki, Inc.

Committee Chairs
 * Audit Committee - Nancy J. Feldman - President and Chief Executive Officer, UCare Minnesota
 * Governance Committee - Harold E. Massey - Founder and Principal Consultant of HRCI
 * Public Policy Committee - Sheila Kiscaden - First Steps Interim Director. Former Minnesota State Senator

At Large Members
 * Barbara Forster - Chair, Project Tandem, Inc.
 * Seymour Gross - Chief Clinical Psychologist, Hennepin County Mental Health Center
 * Richard M. Magraw - Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota; Chief of Psychiatric Services (retired), Veterans Administration Medical Center
 * Anne E. Mahle - Vice President, Recruitment, Teach for America
 * Steven H. Miles - Professor, Center for Bioethics; Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School; Author, Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity, and the War on Terror
 * Richard Oketch - Special Education Instructor, St. Paul Schools; Doctoral Candidate, Walden University
 * Sheryl A. Ramstad - Judge, Minnesota Tax Court
 * Charlie Rounds - President, RSVP Vacations
 * Terry Saario - Retired Foundation President and Community Leader

Emeritus Directors
 * Neal Gault, Jr. - Retired Dean, University of Minnesota Medical School
 * Reverend Richard Lundy - Retired Pastor, St. Luke Presbyterian Church
 * Paul Quie - Regents Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, Dept. of Pediatrics, Fairview-University of MN Hospital
 * Tom Triplett - Attorney and Business Consultant

Contact

 * 717 E. River Parkway
 * Minneapolis, MN 55455
 * Tel: (612) 436-4800
 * Web: http://www.cvt.org

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 * HKH Foundation
 * Campaign to Ban Torture